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Friday, December 12 9:00 a.m. Presentations to the Physics Advisory Committee - Curia II 3:30 p.m. Wine & Cheese - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar - 1 West Speaker: H. Montgomery, Fermilab Title: Status of the Long Range Planning (Physics Advisory Committee Meeting)
Saturday, December 13
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Friday, December 12 Clam chowder Baked tilapia in a lemon butter sauce w/steamed rice $3.50 Honey battered golden fried chicken w/choice of side dishes $4.75 Grilled portabella mushroom stacker w/balsamic drizzle, crumbled gorgonzola and wild greens $4.75 Italian sausage sub sandwich w/sauteed onions and peppers $4.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Damaged Tevatron Equipment Replaced | ||
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On Wednesday evening five technicians and one welder finished the replacement of 10 conning towers on spools in the Tevatron, allowing the accelerator to be cooled down again. Conning towers are used to lead strong electrical currents into the liquid-helium-filled interior of the superconducting Tevatron magnets.
Last Friday, a quench of two thirds of the Tevatron ring damaged one conning tower, causing a leak in the liquid-helium cooling system. To replace the tower, operators had to warm up one of the 24 cryogenic sections of the Tevatron to room temperature. The team replaced all of the section's conning towers
"The original conning towers have weak joints that sometimes break in a quench," said TD's Dave Harding, who supervised the work. "Almost four years ago we began to replace conning towers with an improved design whenever a house had to be
warmed up. We now have completed 14 of the 24 houses." The Accelerator Division will check the section for leaks, and Tevatron collider operations could resume by Tuesday.
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Accelerator Division's Design/Drafting Group Decorates for the Season - Fermilab Style! | ||
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The next time that you are in the Meson Area, stop by MW9 to see the Design/Drafting
Group's seasonal decorations. Year after year the group decorates the tree
with cryogenic artifacts and drafting instruments,
such as triangles, french curves and circle templates. Without a doubt, these are decorations
that can only be found at Fermilab.
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Fermilab Singers' Annual Winter Concert Today | ||
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The Fermilab Singers will perform their annual winter
concert today at noon in the auditorium. The 15 to 20-member chorale
ensemble practices each Wednesday at lunch and performs at Fermilab a
couple of times a year. "We have people in the singing group from
all parts of the lab," said Anne Lucietto of FESS. "The alto
section includes, among others: me (an American engineer), a
French physicist, a Romanian student, and a Russian computer expert."
The group will perform a collection of mostly winter songs (some Christmas-themed, some Hanukkah-themed, some secular--witness "California Dreamin'.") In past concerts, the group covered gospel, Irish, Mozart, modern--usually in their original languages (French, Italian, German, Ladino, Hebrew, Dutch, Czech.) According to the director, Stephen Pordes, "We cover all styles we can get our hands on." Anne Heavey, the group's president, says that Pordes "has a real gift for finding the music."
The Fermilab Singers will also perform at their off-site debut this month.
On Sunday, December 21, from 8:15 p.m to 8:45 p.m., they will perform at the
Naper Settlement.
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From Nature Magazine , December 11, 2003 National Science Foundation facing budget let-down By Geoff Brumfiel [WASHINGTON] Science advocates in the United States are disappointed at a new spending bill that will give the National Science Foundation (NSF) far less cash than was recommended in a law passed just a year ago. read more |
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Get Leave Sheets Signed Today Monthly leave sheets are due to payroll on 12/15 this month because of the holidays. Be sure to have your supervisor sign your monthly leave sheet early.
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